Good for feeders

Price for PV electricity recently increased slightly again

A photovoltaic fitter at work

(Bild: APA/ROBERT JAEGER)

Feed-in tariffs for electricity from photovoltaic (PV) systems have recently risen again slightly. In September, the state settlement agency OeMAG paid more than 6 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) for the first time since February.

Individual electricity suppliers and energy communities are also buying PV electricity for slightly more. However, tariffs of over 50 cents, as was the case during the energy crisis, are a thing of the past.

"Market price" fell in the first half of the year
The key benchmark for PV electricity is the "market price", which has been calculated monthly in arrears by OeMAG since this year. This year, it fell every month from 8.14 cents in January until the summer and was only 4.65 cents from April to June.

Since then it has risen slightly month by month, after 5.34 cents in July and 5.83 cents in August, OeMAG paid 6.04 cents per kWh for solar power fed into the grid in September.

In principle, any photovoltaic system with a maximum output of up to 500 kWp can feed its electricity into the grid via OeMAG and thus at this price. Most recently, almost 130,000 PV system operators had market price contracts with OeMAG.